Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soared up last week from Croyden aerodrome, near London, one of the huge trimotored Fokker planes which Financier Loewenstein habitually described as his "flying offices." In the crew's compartment were Pilot Ronald Drew and Mechanic Robert F. Little. In the "office" flew British Stenographer Miss Edith Clarke and French Stenographer Mlle. Paule Bidalon. Also on board were Valet Frederick Baxter Backster and Secretary J. O. Hodgson. Three mighty engines thrashed the air around the plane into a 300 mile an hour gale, thrusting the Fokker across the English Channel at 100 miles per hour...
...Loewenstein arrived at St. Ingbert from Brussels with fire in her pretty eyes. "This was due to your negligence!" she cried to Pilot Drew, "Take the plane back to Croyden and sell it. I never want to see it or you again...
...Pilot Drew flew the Fokker back to Croyden, where it was temporarily held, by order of the British Air Ministry. Pilot Drew went out on the tugboat Lady Brassy and peered at mocking Channel wavelets. Pilot Drew left the Lady Brassy and entrained for Brussels...
...Northwest. Manufacturer Edsel B. Ford, donor of the four-foot, silver and green marble trophy, acted as starter, watched his own new models take the air for the Texas Co. and the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. Manufacturer Eddie Stinson, not content to enter his Stinson-Detroiter with another pilot, took the controls himself, sought to repeat his 1927 victory. These counted: skill, reliability, speed, endurance, plane performance. This was the serious business of aviation...
Detroit women gathered about Pilot Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie, onetime St. Paul parachute jumper (at 17), now a practical airplane dealer in Memphis. No Elder, Earhart, Boll or Rasche, Pilot Omlie is nevertheless a FIRST WOMAN, first to compete in the reliability tours. She flies a tiny cabin plane, takes her aviation intensely...